Print Email Facebook Twitter Towards a European Division of Labour: Do Europe’s Crises Highlight Structural Challenges to Sustainable Economic Growth in the Eurozone? Title Towards a European Division of Labour: Do Europe’s Crises Highlight Structural Challenges to Sustainable Economic Growth in the Eurozone? Author Scholten, D.J. Scholten, M. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Values, Technology and Innovation Date 2014-06-30 Abstract The financial and economic crises of the last few years in many Southern Eurozone countries are generally studied individually, without reference to other such crises in the region. In this note, we argue that they may also be approached as symptoms of an underlying structural challenge facing the EU economy. In many ways the relationship between northern and southern Eurozone countries seems remarkably similar to typical economic centre–periphery relations, yet without the harmonizing role that a national government could play. The occurrence and combination of crises seems to be indicative of what one would expect from the adverse effects of centre–periphery relations among countries. Unfortunately, this would imply that the crises we are currently seeing are likely to continuously reoccur in the near future to the detriment of sustainable economic growth and political-economic stability in Europe. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:de297f61-60e4-462a-a751-5eb69f684af0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798714000222 Publisher Cambridge University Press Embargo date 2015-06-30 ISSN 1474-0575 Source European Review, 22 (3), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 Academia Europaea Files PDF S1062798714000222a.pdf 239.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:de297f61-60e4-462a-a751-5eb69f684af0/datastream/OBJ/view